# sondar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From sonda +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [sunˈda]
* IPA: (Balearic) [sonˈda]
* IPA: (Valencia) [sonˈdaɾ]

### Verb

sondar (first-person singular present sondo, first-person singular preterite sondí, past participle sondat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
* (transitive, nautical) to sound, to take soundings of
* (transitive, medicine) to insert a probe into
* (transitive, figurative) to sound out (determine a person's intent or preference)

#### Derived terms

* sondable
* sondatge
* sondejar

### Further reading

* “sondar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowing from English sound, French sonder, German sondieren, Italian sondare, Russian зонди́ровать (zondírovatʹ) and Spanish sondear.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔnˈdar/

### Verb

sondar (present tense sondas, past tense sondis, future tense sondos, imperative sondez, conditional sondus)
* (intransitive) to take soundings in
* (transitive, intransitive, general) to sound: ascertain the depth of, explore the nature of the bottom
* (transitive, general) to fathom
* (transitive, figuratively) to try, test
* (intransitive, medicine) to probe (with a probe), to sound (with a sound)
* (intransitive, mining) to make a boring

#### Derived terms

* sondilo (“soundingn line, soundingn lead; probe; sound”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

sondar m
* indefinite plural of sonde

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From sonda +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /sõˈda(ʁ)/ [sõˈda(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /sõˈda(ʁ)/ [sõˈda(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /sõˈda(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /sõˈda(ʁ)/ [sõˈda(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /sõˈda(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sõˈdaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sõˈdaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /sõˈda.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: son‧dar

### Verb

sondar (first-person singular present sondo, first-person singular preterite sondei, past participle sondado)
* to investigate inconspicuously
* to probe (to insert a probe into)
* to fathom (to measure the depth of a body of water)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* sonda

### References

* sondar, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa com Acordo Ortográfico

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sonder, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”), extracted from Old English sundline (“sounding line”), from sund (“water, sea, swimming, sound (channel)”) from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), cognate with English swim. An alternative theory derives it from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *subundāre, from Latin sub- + undō (“to surge, to swell”), from unda (“wave”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sonˈdaɾ/ [sõn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: son‧dar

### Verb

sondar (first-person singular present sondo, first-person singular preterite sondé, past participle sondado)
* to sound (to probe the depth of water with a weighted rope or similar)
* (transitive) to catheterize

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* sondaje

### Further reading

* “sondar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10